Ellis Windmill

stevesloan (e2 Member)

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14 Aug 2012 - 10:46 AM

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Lovely image and great and appropriate manipulation in the sky Steve

barbarahirst (e2 Member)

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14 Aug 2012 - 12:36 PM

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what a stunningly beautiful mill
Great angle you took this at

NDODS (e2 Member)

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14 Aug 2012 - 1:49 PM

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A rather detailed foreword supported by the rather impressive monochromatic photograph showing the gorgeous Windmill off at its very best. Great tonal range, and a great perspective.

Nathan

banehawi (Critique Team)

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14 Aug 2012 - 4:00 PM

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Nice shot Jasmine. I like the angle, and the dramatic clouds.

A couple of suggestions.

Theres some wires on the lower right, and a building lower left that can be removed. Makes the windmill look likes its standing alone. I would like to see more detail/less black in the brickwork, and the dome with the highlights reduced just a little.

Right edge has a few small areas where there may have been some cloning, just needs a little tidying.

Ive loaded mods to show all this, - mod2 is just a toned version.


Hope this is helpful,



regards


Willie

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14 Aug 2012 - 7:27 PM

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Thank you very much, Willie. Nice MOD, it looks a lot tidier without house...

Yes, there were two horizontal wires on the right corner. I cropped one off, because I didn't want to lose too much mill. The mess perhaps the lens hood that made a bit dark corner that I didn't cropped off totally. I took a few shots this time. I 've had more experience now.., No, actually the sails were turning fast, I had to get theone that the sails at the right angle to fill in the frame "nicely".

I brightened the whole image up.The contrast of the white dome and dark mill( body) was quite strong under the light. I was worried that the white dome would lose detail. I just had a look the original, it would need 3 stops to get the mill's (dark part) detail out. Guess what? The noise came out as well. It perhaps needs bracketing. I'll remember this when I see another dark mill next time..

Only one question, Willie. How did you tone V2? I quite like it but I couldn't work out how you did it.

Hue/saturation and colour balance wouldn't work on Mono;

Channel mixer and selective colour are possible but it seems complicated, because I don't know which colour to tune to get straight forward result from mono;

Warm filter is also possible, but not quite right, as yours;

The last one is Variations. I have never used this before, not quite looks like yours either..

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Thank you very much Lynne for your MODs and artistic approach.."Duotones", I have never tried this one either. How do you get duo tones? Are they from the Variations?

Thank you all for your kind comments.

xwang (e2 Member)

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15 Aug 2012 - 10:34 AM

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Morning Willie,
Yes! It is magic. It is a great "discovery".
Perhaps CS5 and CS6' s lists are not quite same. I have to find it from Hue/saturation>preset>sepia...and the most interesting part is the whole set of layers to adjust, one could get endless results to play..I perhaps only use less than 5% of the capacity of PS.

Also thank you very much of the duo tone. This is another setting I've never touched before. It is really great to know, and hopefully it will help other members who are interested in your technique and great help.
Thank you all.
Jasmine.